Hi Forrest, I agree that it's too hard to get Roadster working. I think a combination of removing features/dependencies and some build-file magic would help make things easier. Also moving to sqlite would be a big help.
To aid in communication, what do you think about starting up an IRC channel for Roadster? For now I invite you all to join/idle in: #roadster on irc.freenode.net We'll start with making it easier to build Roadster, and move from there. -Ian On mar, 2006-07-18 at 22:43 -0400, Forrest Loomis wrote: > Well, I first want to say: Roadster looks amazing! It is the > absolute most attractive gps program that is avaiable for linux -- > free or not. > > However, I say that purely from the screenshots, as I am completely > incapable of getting it to run. I can compile it with the gmemchunk > to slice patch posted to the mailing list last month, but the GUI is > unresponsive. > > Anyways, I have some time on my hand and would like to help out with > development of roadster. > Where to start? > > I heard recently that there is some desire for roadster to be broken > up into a backend library -- libroadster? and from there making it > easy to make a front end in any high level language one would desire. > So... where should I focus my efforts? > > Also have any thoughts been given to try and rally developers to the > project? Maybe a wiki, where people could show how to get what is > currently done working, and what is currently being worked on and by > whom. It seems to work for other projects, maybe roadster could get > some help from it? > > Anyways, I would like to see this project take off, or at least get to > a usable state. It looks amazing in the screenshots, I guess its just > broken now? > > I look forward to hearing from some subscribers. > _______________________________________________ > roadster mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/roadster _______________________________________________ roadster mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/roadster
